On Thursday 07 July 2011 10:21:59 Walter Prins wrote: > Hi Lisi > > On 7 July 2011 08:52, Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > You could obviously see something wrong > > > > > > The posted error report had no colon. > > > > Yes - but the script had one, which was why I included the actual script > > in my > > original post. I seem to have cut too much in this email! > > The error message from Python is quoting what the interpreter read/saw from > the script file it was running. If it quoted no colon, then there was no > colon in the python file read by the interpreter, at the time that it tried > to run it. Your job is to figure out how this has happened. Do you maybe > have several copies of the script lying around in different folders?
No. KWrite keeps an automatic backup, but I never use it. As a result of your question, I have just run the automatic backup. It runs fine. > Were > you maybe editing the the file (and keeping it open in the editor) while > running it from a command prompt every so often and did you maybe not save > the change before running the script I did do that once or twice during the long saga, but immediately realised and saved the file before running again. In fact, I think that it must sometimes have been saved multiple times because I was so afraid that I would do that. > (so that there may have been a > discrepancy between the script on disk that was run by the interpreter and > the script in your editor window)? I can see nothing that could have caused it. :-( Believe me, I thought of all the possibilities that have been mentioned so far and tried them out, with no joy. The only thing that worked was inserting a space and then, at Alan's suggestion, removing it. I am completely baffled. There must have been something, but I cannot fathom what. What difference does inserting a space and then deleting it make????? At least this confirms that I took all the right debugging steps. I think I just have to write it down as one of life's little mysteries. If I can't uncover what happened with the files in front of me, clearly people who can see neither the screen nor the files have an impossible task! I am very grateful for all the list's help. I may have been left with the puzzle, but I have learnt a lot in the process of trying to debug the script. Lisi _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor